skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preferences are one thing, but you're factually wrong about the efficiency of cities vs suburbs.

"Cities generally have significantly lower emissions than
suburban areas, and the city-suburb gap is particularly large in older areas, like New York."

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/taub...

"In metropolitan regions, suburbs emit up to four times the household emissions of their urban cores. While households located in more densely populated neighborhoods have a carbon footprint 50% below the national average, those in the suburbs emit up to twice the average. In metro areas such as New York, GHG emissions in these outlying jurisdictions are readily apparent: Emissions in Manhattan average lower than 38 tons per household annually, but in exurban jurisdictions such as Sussex County, N.J., these emissions exceed 66 tons per household annually."

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/its-not-just-cities-subur...

You're radically under-estimating the efficiency gains of sharing infrastructure. Consider a simple metric like paved road-miles per person, or electricity-line-miles, or distance to school, etc.

It's absolutely fine to have a preference for a rural environment - I grew up in the foothills of the mountains and I miss them terribly - but efficiency is a measurable metric, and cities win, for better or worse.
that is a uniquely boneheaded approach to managing a rental property. you can say "there never was a viable path" about anything if you chucklefuck your way through it instead of doing it well.
"Chanakya Niti"- best for Leadership/Business/DecisionMaking/Life overall
what limitations? PlanetScale has public companies running on top of it. If a startup found limitations then its a skill issue.
I wouldn't call the comparison to A11 disingenuous, they were very clear they were talking about how far their neural engines have come, in the context of the competition just starting to put NPUs in their stuff.

I mean, they compared the new iPad Pro to an iPod Nano, that's just using your own history to make a point.
I was big on Rails scene when it was huge in 2008, and saw a big exodus from it. I found so many of the "Rails" problems were solved by learning two languages: ruby, and sql. People would go to crazy lengths to avoid looking at the queries they'd actually run. I can admit to not really learning ruby as a language by itself, and can now see how much better my old code would've been if I wasn't just blindly shoehorning Railscasts in there.

Similar problems for people who learned angular but not typescript, laravel but not php, etc.
Most of what Apple sells goes into mobile devices: phone, tablet, laptop. In their prior incarnation, they ran up real hard against the thermal limits of what they could put in their laptops with the IBM PowerPC G5 chip.

Pure compute power has never been Apple's center of gravity when selling products. The Mac Pro and the XServe are/were minuscule portions of Apple's sales, and the latter product was killed after a short while.

> Apple's engineers have unilaterally decided to handicap their own processors for no real good reason

This is a misunderstanding of what the limiting factor is of Apple products' capability. The mobile devices all have battery as the limfac. The processors being energy efficient in compute-per-watt isn't a handicap, it's an enabler. And it's a very good reason.
Honestly? No.

I've build a new home and do heat with heat pumps both the home and sanitary water, it's efficient and effective. In the old home there is only minisplit aircon and classic gas heating. Why? Simply because we can't go all, all-electric at the power level needed in classical homes. Yes, heat pumps are effective, but if you are not in a relatively hot climate heating a classic badly insulated home with electricity still means too much power. We can do for some, we can't for all.

My current home with -18/-25℃ (-0.4/-13℉) absorb 6kW/8kW electricity, and that's enough to have 20℃ inside. The old home in a much mild climate use 24kW thermal methane gas. Here a classic home converted to a air/water heat pump would consume around 12-15kW, only a geothermal one can consume less. It's not sustainable if we ALL do that + cars recharging and so on.

The simple truth is that: if local climate do not go much beyond 4℃/39℉ we can convert also old buildings, as long as in the summer we do not need much to cool during the night, otherwise we need new homes.

This is the very same issue with the new deal at all: it's perfectly feasible in new buildings, it's not in classic ones. We can "upgrade" a bit anything, but only a bit.
Additionally, the fact that passenger airplanes carry, well, passengers, while cargo ships don't, means that airlines are automatically under more scrutiny. Further to what you wrote, some airlines have even been blacklisted by e.g. the EU because of safety reasons, like PIA (the flag carrier of Pakistan!) from 2020 to 2023.
For me at least, it's an excellent trade off. I haven't had an iPad with a home button for years, and I can't imagine why I'd want to give up screen real estate or device size for a button. The swipe interface works perfectly and does the same thing.
Exactly!

Wars have been fought over coffee, people regularly spend thousands for coffee machines. There are entire companies that exist just to cater to this market.

Me, I'm a tea guy.
It’s the “Mostly” part that sucks. What’s the price difference between 8 and 16? Like $3 in wholesale prices.

This just seems like lameness on Apple’s part.
Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)
Most people that consider themselves "power users" aren't even power users, either. Like how being into cars doesn't make you a race car driver.
That is called a buffer/page cache and has existed in operating systems since the 1980s.
> or Apple’s silicon game is racing far ahead of what I considered possible

Gruber's strange assumption here is that a new number means some major improvements. Apple has never really been consistent about sticking to patterns in product releases.
Not everything has to be solved by regulators. The walled garden is way more important to fix than arbitrary hardware configurations
Are you suggesting a flavor of Lisp? Because THAT could be very nice in a cell-format.
Explaining Thruster, a new 37signals gem that speeds up your app
https://archive.ph/Vj2py

https://web.archive.org/web/20240507100100/https://www.nytim...
I think the Starfield TV show is going to have difficulties, it'll just be people switching between planets every scene.
I agree with you on sparse arrays and multidimensional slices, but this is basically the same as what you'd do manually. Saying that "track strides for me" is "lots of features" is a bit uncharitable.
This sounds like you are championing the very mindset that has made google crumble?

Write docs that slow things down, don't code/build projects, and do it all in the name of greed and the only justification is that it will get cancelled anyways (probably because no real work was being completed).
None of these things are true of me actually. Skill based interview is an equalizer which overcomes status education. And fine divide the salary by 2 and it’s still better than most “licensed” careers
This is a tablet not a laptop
Credit: @kodablah and @chippiewill, thanks for turning me into this!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282650
> Sadly, people use indie to mean small, rather than it's actual meaning of "independent of a publisher"

That is way too imprecise a description for it to possibly be considered correct.

Indie is about financial and creative independence aka the publisher does not drive the game.

Many indies still go through publishers because they don't have the means or knowledge to handle distribution. This was even more so back when you had to distribute via physical media, but they start looking for publishers once the game is done or in good shape.

For instance back when they built Bastion SuperGiant had just 7 people and it was entirely self-funded. But they went to WB for publishing, mainly to ensure getting it on XBLA would not be too much of a hassle.
No. It was developed concurrently with the film version and parts of it were even based on Clarke's earlier short stories (e.g. The Sentinel).
Exactly like that, here Holmes has had the sentence reduced by a few months. It's not even significant. These particular rules are the same for everyone.

How they're applied and imposed is a different story though.
You can't really sell them in big quantities because they're typically custom to the task. They need to be custom shaped for each application.
Haven't you heard and seen the latest VC craze? AI is going to autogenerate millions of games, movies, and books all with the click of a button.
Yep. The problem with the story of bikeshedding is that it assumes people know bike sheds but not nuclear reactors. There are plenty of cases of people who are great at nuclear reactor design but have no idea how workers should park their bicycles.
Makes sense, thank you!

EDIT: degenerate example, but still a good explanation.
I have 30+ years of experience on my CV and I still am being asked to do coding interviews... I flatly refuse every time, because they have no connection to the actual job. The hiring process disregards experience and treats everyone in the same way. Ours is a stupid industry.
It is the result of the McDonnell Douglas Merger. McDonnell Douglas' focus on affordability and shareholder value replaced Boeing's passion for great planes.

It is kinda funny - Boeing bought the company but it was McDonnell Douglas executives who held the rulership of the merged company

Boeing's Downfall: A Tale of Corporate Culture, Greed, and Safety Compromises https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boeings-downfall-tale-corpora....
That may be your personal preference, but you should accept that 99% of people don't care about programming their toaster, so you're very unlikely to ever make progress in this fight.
For engineers at the mid to low level where leet code dominates the trait to select for is ability to program and be reasonable to work with.
I could buy it, that it might have some perceived effect that’s measurable. I have tasted many a warmed up cold brew, and it tastes like coffee to me. The ones that are actually cold brewed are milder, and the hot brewed fakes are noticeably sharper, and I feel it later in my throat… The thing for me is that the actual acidity of coffee has started causing some inflammation. The reason I’m seeking cold brew is my doctor recommended it. I’m less worried about the perception of acidity and more worried about issues caused by too low pH.
You never make outgoing HTTP calls, talk to a database or do any other IO? Genuinely curious.
> but it can be done without having to jump through any special hoops.

You are really stretching the definition of "special hoops" here. On Android sideloading is a switch hidden in your settings menu; on iOS it's either a municipal feature or a paid benefit of their developer program.

Relative to every single other commercial, general-purpose operating system I've used, I would say yeah, Apple practically defines what "special hoops" look like online.
he makes nice video demos too https://research.swtch.com/acme
My guess is that the M4 and M3 are functionally almost identical so there's no real reason for them to restrict the iPad M4 launch until they get the chip into the MacBook / Air.
At the risk of sounding like that guy who thinks everybody should know about the same things he does, I am admittedly pretty shocked to hear somebody on HN (who is also perhaps a US citizen?) didn't know about this. That's not intended as a commentary on you, but rather on our society and the potential for even enormous events to fall out of the common social consciousness.

Do you maybe at least recognize the photo at the top of the Wiki article?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
You can still build 500k$ of equity for a married couple in the USA.
Fair point—I just get a little annoyed when the marketing speak confuses the average consumer and felt as though some of the jargon they used could trip less informed customers up.
James Hoffman's video on the subject incoming in 3... 2... 1... can't wait :-)
I suspect that's intentional and they're using them to show things you'd likely reply to... and then just bury the rest. More of an opinion black hole than a discussion system.
Battery replacement costs $200. It's not like you just have to throw it in the trash if the battery dies.
There is no doubt AI won't be used to fix the fully voiced issue. That is such a no-brainer.

As to graphics, my favorite games of the past 5 years were average graphics at best. (Subnautica, Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Hades... Red Dead 2 ok not that one)
> M4 has Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, which is faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today.

I always wonder what crazy meds Apple employees are on. Two RTX 4090s is quite common for hobbyist use, and that is 1321 TOPS each,
making two over 69 times more than what Apple claims to be the fastest in the world. That performance is literally less than 1 % of a single H200.

Talk about misleading marketing...
I can imagine internal apartments designed with an open concept kitchen/living room and then a row of bedrooms/bathrooms off the open room. Then you could have an hallway off the back that funneled in natural light and the bedrooms/bathrooms could have windows that opened unto that. That gives you an unimpeded escape path.
Unfortunately, many communities and cities restrict home building to ensure that rents and values are artificially inflated.

My city's housing development department is run by the Chairman's (our version of a Mayor) nephew, the husband of a previous member, an owner of the largest property management company in the county, and an owner of a landscaping business. I attempted to join the housing development department but the positions are specifically appointed by the "Mayor". Our "Mayor" is also not elected via public voting, since they are a Chairman they have to be removed by the Board, and the Chairman has held this role since 1975.

Ultimately, until this Chairman passes or is (somehow) removed from their role, there is nothing that anyone in our city can do to rectify this. And I believe this is a common problem across many cities outside of Metro areas (where the housing supply issue is more apparent).
Why is this directed at me? I'm not the one doing the software development, I was just trying to install an application.
> With these advanced features, Apple Pencil Pro allows users to bring their ideas to life in entirely new ways, and developers can also create their own custom interactions.

Can someone please make it so that if you turn the "Pencil" upside down it acts as an eraser, like a real pencil would?
I don’t get the point. From what I can see, dorms construction often costs around $70,000. Munger was advocating that we get rid of windows and put students in exceptionally tiny rooms, and the cost will be about $267,000 per student? How is this an advantage?
The one in Arizona was better and even more better with the top to bottom tour before it flooded.
The larger one is 5.1mm thick. There aren't separate components any more, it's a smear of glue with some silicon and batteries suspended in it.
Exactly right. But people today are extremely resistant to this fact.

It's very clear that many, many people would give up nearly anything -- including years of their lives -- to work with someone as talented as Kubrick. Is that crazy? I wouldn't do it, but others would.
Making music. The iPad is much better for performing than a computer. There is a huge range of instruments, effects, sequencers, etc. available on the iPad. Things like physical modeling and chained reverb can eat up processor cycles so more performance is always welcomed.

Both Final Cut Pro and Davinci resolve can also use as much power as you can give them though it isn’t clear to me why you’d use an iPad instead of a Mac. They also announced a crazy multicam app for iPads and iPhones that allows remote control of a bunch of iPhones at the same time.
seems helpful, i mean sometimes i do want to keep the url same but redirect my them to different url. good thinking
General building/fire code but even be a larger issue. I suspect you could probably solve the plumbing side of things but meeting building code might be the larger challenge.
Interesting, by what benchmark did you compare the G4 and the P3?

I don't have a horse in this race, Jobs lied or bent the truth all the time so it wouldn't surprise me, I'm just curious.
They make a version of iPad that runs macOS, it is called a MacBook Pro.
The book was written concurrently with the movie. See the book "The Lost Worlds of 2001" for various versions of it.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-2001-Arthur-Clarke/dp/0451...
Just yesterday there was a poll going around on Twitter of which of the big 3 gaming companies, Nintendo, Sony, and MS is the "least bad" or something like that, and I saw a lot of people saying Microsoft. I figured they'd do something stupid soon to remind everyone how Microsoft operates, but didn't think it would be so soon!

I can't believe these studio acquisitions still aren't being blocked. At what point will they finally acknowledge the blatant anti-competition Microsoft regularly demonstrates by buying any studio that gets too big, letting them rot, and then killing them off?
That's working great for St. Louis! Empty husks of building that have sat empty and unmaintained for years being bought for cents on the dollar is definitely a sign of a healthy city
I liked it, but couldn't get past "this is just Bioshock in space with a more mysterious plot". Then the reveal, well, IDK.
Tinfoil hat talk.
I can help but think the missileers would be less depressed (it's a known problem) if some more attention was paid to aesthetics and comfort, given the amount of time they spent locked in there.
I wish they showed the mobile bridge in motion.
Extremely cool video. Very cool technique as well. Two questions.

First, I'm guessing the cardboard boxes they filled with road material are for testing / QA of the blend?

Second, the "bridge" structure that allows traffic to keep flowing is very cool, but I'm assuming you have to stop traffic to get it into place to begin with. Seems unlikely they are moving that structure while traffic drives over it. Of course placing that structure should take much less time than the resurfacing process, but how much time? Minutes? Hours?
Make HTTP calls to OpenAI? Pusher? DynamoDB? KMS? SQS? Make a datababse query? Anything that you cannot or do not want to run in your monolith service.

You make it sound like it's sufficient to have concurrency support in 2024. My point is that it's necessary.
I TOTALLY thought this was going to be an article about Major Hayden's resume:

Resume as a man page:
https://majorhayden.com/
I just bought an almost completely maxed out MacBook Pro and it annoys me that every other Apple product brags about having a cellular modem and no matter how much one is willing to spend, one cannot have a cellular modem in their power user laptop offering.
I posted this [1] couple years ago after seeing iPad comments on HN after WWDC. It was true then, and it is still true now.

[1]: https://andregarzia.com/2022/06/about-ipads-and-developers.h...
This was when foreign keys still weren't supported by Planetscale. The specific data model was heavily relational and queries were very inefficient without foreign key support. Distributed writes were also important, and if I remember right those weren't supported either though that's a really common limitation.

Assuming a particular tool works for all situations because it works for some is a mistake though. Plenty of companies use all kinds of tools, they're picked to match the specific use case and there is no magic bullet.
I know this is over a week old, just coming back to say I moved off Poetry in favor of PDM. The main reason is because of PDM's built in scripting/tasks management. I have to install a plugin to get this with Poetry, and it's clumsy even then.

The other 2 reasons are more subjective. The first being I've had less issues installing packages with PDM. It's been a while and I don't remember which specific packages Poetry struggled to install, but my takeaway was just that I don't run into those problems with PDM the way I did with Poetry.

The other larger/more consequential reason is the maintainers of Poetry. There have been a number of GitHub issues replies laying out plans for things they will/won't do with Poetry, and it didn't inspire confidence in me. I want to do things the "Python way," not the "Poetry way," and PDM adheres more closely to the direction the Python project is moving. I don't want surprises later down the road when a tool (Poetry) is doing a bunch of custom stuff that eventually may not be compatible with the ecosystem at large.

All that being said, I had a lot of good things to say about Poetry while I was using it, and I do understand why people make it their package/project manager. Just wasn't the right fit for me.
The GP comment can be misleading because it suggests Apple is tying storage to ram. That is not the case (at least not directly).

The RAM and system-on-chip are tied together as part of the system-on-package. The SoP is what enables M chips to hit their incredible memory bandwidth numbers.

This is not an easy thing to allow configuration. They can’t just plug a different memory chip as a final assembly step before shipping.

They only have two SoPs as part of this launch: 9-core CPU with 8gb, and 10-core CPU with 16gb. The RAM is unified for cpu/gpu (and I would assume neural engine too).

Each new SoP is going to reduce economies of scale and increase supply chain complexity. The 256/512gb models are tied to the first package, the 1/2tb models are tied to the second. Again, these are all part of the PCB, so production decisions have to be made way ahead of consumer orders.

Maybe it’s not perfect for each individual’s needs, but it seems reasonable to assume that those with greater storage needs also would benefit from more compute and RAM. That is, you need more storage to handle more video production so you are probably more likely to use more advanced features which make better use of increased compute and RAM.
I'm still waiting for the technology to advance. People can't reasonably spend $1500 on the world's shittiest computer monitor, even if it is on sale.
It's funny cuz Charbux has no problem pouring hot espresso into cold ice milk with caramel and cream on top. I think it's pretty clearly just "baristas" justifying not changing their process, which is fine if a bit lazy and argumentative. Many coffee people are totally interested in finding new ways to do stuff, but they have to have the mental space to do it.
No offense intended. It sounds like you're on the winning side of hair prejudice.

Physicists are renowned for their hair, but why stop there.
The GPL does unless they’re willing to dual license or only focus on the EU perhaps. GPL isn’t compatible with the App Store according to the FSF
Apple Pencil Pro...

Apple Pencil Ultra next?

Apple Pencil Ultra+

Apple Pencil Pro Ultra XDR+
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40271978
I apologize for being pedantic here, but we're nowhere near Performa-level confusion. There were 70 distinct models of Macintosh Performa between 1992 and 1997 when the last Performa was shipped. What is the difference between the Performa 635, 636, 637, and 638... SKUs, I guess?

There was a model of Performa that sold for literally 2 weeks (the Performa 410). Apple sold the same series of computer under different names: The Performa 630, LC 630, and Quadra 630 are all the same machine.

I agree that Apple has a real naming problem (is this an X as in 'ex' or X as in '10'?) but I really don't find the iPad line up to be that confusing. There are 2 sizes of iPad Pro, 2 sizes of iPad Air, an iPad and an iPad mini.
Those are all different genres of FPS